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Poverty, that's how. They live in flats because they can't afford US-style houses (climate would allow them easily), and can't afford 70km average commute radiu
by anovikov 3y ago
Poverty, that's how. They live in flats because they can't afford US-style houses (climate would allow them easily), and can't afford 70km average commute radius - car-only because sprawl can't be covered by public transport.
They live in apartments not because they are so conscious about urban planning, but because they can't afford to do otherwise. Give people money and they want to move to single-family houses in suburbs.
- Darmody 3y agoThat's far from the truth. People want to live near the city center. They want to be able to walk and get anywhere easily and that's means they want to live in an apartment in a city. Actually, nowadays is cheaper to buy a house with a garden than an apartment and guess what people are trying to buy?
- electrozav 3y agoIt's much more expensive to live in the center of a big city. And not just in Spain.
- anthk 3y agoNo, buddy, it's the reverse. The sparsest provinces with rural backgrounds (the Castilles [except for maybe Zamora-Salamanca-Leon] , Aragon, Extremadura)... are the poorest. The most populated ones are the ones with the most quality jobs and people has much better salaries and ofc the cost of everything it's on par: Bilbao, Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid... Also, as they stated owning a flat in the center of your city or town it's expensive as fuck, while owning a 'villa' in the outskirts in the middle of nowhere in Ye Olde Farmtown it's dirt cheap.
- manuelabeledo 3y ago> ... and can't afford 70km average commute radius Do we consider this abomination a luxury now?